Quotes 6101 till 6120 of 25206.
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
On War (1832) -
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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